Frank Bell describes the process he uses to prepare photographs for posting pictures on his website. The goal of the process is not to transform the pictures, but to enhance them, and includes sharpening, adjusting the contrast and brightness, cropping, and resizing. Frank walks through applying the process to a snapshot from his deck garden.

Blog post of the picture

Links:

• GIMP homepage: http://www.gimp.org/
• The MeettheGimp videocast:
• Frank's camera: http://www.fujifilm.com/products/digital_cameras/s/finepix_s3200/
• Potter wasps (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potter_wasp
• Frank's brother's eagle pictures: http://www.pineviewfarm.net/weblog/2011/12/eagles-reprise/

The pictures from the podcast:

• The unedited original: http://pineviewfarm.net/misc/wasp/HPRwasp1.jpg
• The picture sharpened: http://pineviewfarm.net/misc/wasp/HPRwasp1-sharpened.jpg
• The picture with brightness and contrast adjusted: http://pineviewfarm.net/misc/wasp/HPRwasp1-b_and_c.jpg
• The cropped picture: http://pineviewfarm.net/misc/wasp/HPRwasp1-cropped.jpg
• The resized picture: http://pineviewfarm.net/misc/wasp/HPRwasp1-resized.jpg
• Blog post of the picture: http://www.pineviewfarm.net/weblog/2012/05/wasp-2/

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